Thursday, March 22, 2018
Welcome Remarks
Keynote by Jörn Leonhard (Universität Freiburg), “Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918/19” Sponsored by the German Historians’ Association
Friday, March 23, 2018
Panel 1: Treaties & the Making of the Postwar Order
Chair: Regine Mathias (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University), Brest-Litovsk at 100: Re-evaluating a Misunderstood Peace
Leonard Smith (Oberlin College), The Politics of Recognition at the Paris Peace Conference
Tosh Minohara (Kobe University), Elusive Equality: Japan’s Leadership and the Postwar Issue of Race
Panel 2: Wilsonianism and its Discontents
Chair: Jan Jansen (GHI Washington DC)
David Allen (Harvard Kennedy School), Towards an “Ideal of Democracy?” Wilsonian Legacies and the Construction of a Foreign Policy Public in the United States
Roberta Pergher (Indiana University), Fascist Italy and the Rights of Others
Miclós Zeidler (Eötvös Loránd University), Revisionism as a Means of Nation Building: The Characteristics of Hungarian Revisionism between the World Wars
Panel 3: Empires after the War (part 1)
Chair: Birgit Schäbler (Universität Erfurt/Orient-Institut Beirut)
Noriko Kawamura (Washington State University), Post-World War I Search for an Order in the Pacific: Reexamination of the Versailles-Washington Treaty System
Donal Hassett (University of Bristol), New Citizens for a New Empire? Renegotiating the Colonial Relationship in the Postwar French Empire
Panel 4: Empires after the War (part 2)
Chair: Mustafa Aksakal (Georgetown University)
Sean Andrew Wempe (Washington State University), A Question of Respectability: Colonial German Responses to the Treaty of Versailles and “Colonial Guilt”
Leila Fawaz (Tufts University), From Partners to Subjects: Egyptians and Syrians in the Post-War Order
Invitation-only event: Brief keynote and panel discussion
Brief keynote by Adam Tooze (Columbia University): “1918: The Botched Entry into the American Century”
Panel chair: Heidrun Tempel (German State Department)
Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University)
Jeremi Suri (University of Texas at Austin)
Adam Tooze (Columbia University)
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Panel 5: Internationalisms
Chair: Axel Jansen (GHI Washington DC)
Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Universität Basel), The Coincidence of Densification and Disentanglement: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century
Michele Louro (Salem State University), Nehru, India and Global Anti-Imperialism between the World Wars
Claudia Siebrecht (University of Sussex), ‘Universal Conscience’ and Lasting Peace: League of Nation Youth Education in the 1920s and 1930s
Panel 6: Post-war Economies/Labor and Economy after the War
Chair: Jamie Martin (Georgetown University)
Anna Karla (Universität zu Köln), Reparation Policies Reconsidered: Material Reconstruction after World War I in Europe and Beyond
Madeleine Dungy (European University Institute), Economic Freedom of Movement in the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization, 1919-1923
Nicholas Mulder (Columbia University), The Birth of Sanctions from the Spirit of Blockade, 1918-1920
Panel 7: Minorities
Chair: Carole Fink (Ohio State University)
Volker Prott (University of Melbourne/Aston University), Taming Wilsonianism: The League of Nations and Territorial Conflict after Versailles
Laura Robson (Portland State University), Capitulations Redux: The Imperial Genealogy of the post-WWI “Minority” Regimes
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Adele Lindenmeyr (Villanova)
Eckart Conze (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Barbara Potthast (Universität zu Köln)
Elizabeth Thompson (American University)